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B. ESSER. Publisher.
VOL. XV.
FALLEN HEROES,
Memorials of Valiant Soldiers of
tbe Armies ofthe North.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE COMMUNITY.
KUTZTOWN, BERKS CO., PA., SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1894.
$1.50 PER YEAR.
NO. 1049.
Noblo Graves to Bo Remembered On Decoration Day.
On T>,
.ration T>
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the
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killi-.l witL
h, head
, I to fill
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f 1,
fell,
nld
r.nson no other
licnrts jro ..nt to
' fat,, iv],;],, 1h,,
in their ean aad
Every butt!.'
; every v.t-
i home comrade
liis face to the
who, rushing at
ftting them
falling <li<l
B ootmtrvV
0F-THE-CIV1L-WAR* SLEEP7!
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NORRISTOWN-
nti
for
of lSfifl
•'■1 the
1 man j
»L Tl
their &
Unite.
Bcene
■ mem
Bald
a Sei
tho C
Ir
rathern
■ne leave their
.gainst the flag
entury old. The
ivaril Dickinson
Engla of the
fttor from Ore-
haml>er, dressed
of a Federal colonel,
r 1 which ho had
ista npon his desk, de-
tingnishetl andience:
'■: the people is here
i The majesty of the
1 I come, :\ wanderer
Pacific, to record my
of the East."
in
S<
:u ms piace m i
• tbe mantle of
iiiiif;.rui of the
ura ut Ball's
* with-
,,f the enemy
every moment
1!. treat he
surrender he
trout of the
rs np the hill
lame from the
id his instant
■ti-.-, tho men
■as with diffi-
' .,,,.. ,.r «,,
honored this
I. F.v.'.R LIVE.
i ol Colonel Ells-
York Zouaves ai
y his clever strata-
i number of Union
a a martyr to the
i and inflamed the i
rti widely inourneil
on our side who
irt. A Confederate
attracted his nt-
bed to the roof to
li i] 1 my trophy !"
t,. his men in tho
!" ex-
■ his hiding
a bullet in Ells-
minute later the
li, 1 just fate ut tho
1 Fe leral private.
1.1',! S BEAVERX.
if < leueral Meade
atenant did more
ader his command
s'liou-.lid victory at
r had such ti scene
e been witnessed
Massena wedged
tho Austrian lines
lion line was falter-
diu Haskell
isin was .sent
itorcemeuts.
h r his own
troops and
the proper
• 1 back the terrific
allaut work ho was
1 Congress was pre-
■ n a star when he
of the iightinig at
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SEItMON.
The Subject: "Recovered Families"
(Preached at Little Rock, Ark.)
Text : "Tlion Dnvid nnd tho people that
I Were with him lifted up their voice an 1 wept
; until thoy had no moro power to w"op. *
i* * David recovered all."—I Samuel xxx..
; 4, 19.
Then it Intense excitement In the village
oi/.lkliitr. David and his men am bidding
goodhy to their families an 1 nre orr for th,.
wars. In that littlo village of Ziklng tho de-
fenseleae onos will be safe until tho warriors
niisho,l with victory, como homo. But will
tho defenseless onos he safoV Tho soft arms
or children aro around tho nooks of tho
bronze warriors until thoy shake themselves
free nnd start, and handkerchiefs and flaps
aro wave 1 ,ind kisses thrown until tho arme 1
men vanish beyond the hills, David an 1 his
men soon fret through with their campaign
nnd start homeward. Every night on their
way home no sooner does tho soldier put hk
head on the knapsack than in his dream lie
hoars the welcome of the wife and tho shout
of tho chili).
i to tell
io bat-
re and
Clad,
and his
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nt thrihead of Greeg's Texana to chargi
and they, brave men, refused to nu.v
a step until he had withdrawn to tho
rear, when they rent the air with their |
blood curdling yell and bore down !
upon the opposing companies like famished lions released from bondage.
(Ieneral Wadaworth was one of the
wealthiest men in Western Sew York, >
nearly sixty years of age, handsome in
face (in.l figure, an officer and a gen-
tlem.ui, who, at the beginning of the
war, offered himself and his purse to
the cause of the Union. After 1700
out of the 5000 men he led into the
light had been swept away by ti per- '
teet hailstorm of bullets, the remnant
broke to pieces. It was whilo try in.:; I
to reform his shattered forces that he-
met his death.
WILLIAMS AND SEDGWICK.
Probably no man was more beloved |
by his soldiers than T. S. Williams,
who fell in n skirmish at Baton Rouge ;
while leading his men into action, ami
admonished them to keep tlieir line
tirm with his dying wdfrda.
General Sedgwick was another of the
prominent commanders who were reck-
lessly brave. He was superintending
! the building of a battery and said to
his men, who wero wincing under the
enemy's fierce lire, "Don't worry.
Those fellows could not hit an ele-
If they will read the story of the fight
ut Chancellorsville they will learn of
men who went to death as bravely as
any who ever fell in battle.
"You must chnrgo into tho wood*.
and hold tho enemy in chick until
these batteries aro placed, " wus 1'leas-
ontou'a command.
"I will," was all that Major Keenan
answered with a smile upon his lips,
HIUIUu^u "v. —— * ar f
come out of the conflict nlivo.
Not a man of that regiment faltered,
although each know the order to advance was his death warrant. With a
demonstration ot strength almost superhuman, they held back the enemy
without losing a foot of ground unti
the command came for them to go to
the rear. Covered with blood and
blackened with smoke, that shattered
remnant retired, but with the knowledge that they had been of inestimable service to the cause of the Union.
It was a demonstration of courage
which not only compares with but excels any other in the history of warfare, for these men were not tho Old
(liuird of Sapoleou, the heroes of many
[campaigns, nor the flower of the
English cavalry drilled for many years
to march and act as a unit, but a company of citizen soldiery, untrained in
the art of war, unused to the sight of
carnage, who had come at a moment's
> warning from the workshop, the farm,
1 the office to defend the country and
the cause which their ancestors hud
i fought for through seven painful
■ years.
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Oh, mam-
nek to do
! How I gwino
buck to de houso
oinin' home?"
,lat MissMarg'et, yandi
my, b-ck Miss Mar.
house,"
"You fottl, boy!
t.ck Miss Marg'et
when Marse Hugh i
Men were lowering something from
the baggage-ear; Isham saw it
through a rain of sudden tears, and
taking off his cap, said, with bowed
head: "Marse Hugh —done—done
come home—to stay, mammy—wid a
! bullet in his broils'. "
*rx>
wi 11
he
I !
irthy of bettor disciplined
betti r fate," said General
he heard of Colonel Bob-
Baton Rouge. Roberts
mud of tho Seventeenth
lich lost its courage at
enemy and began
le wus shot dead while,
inning down his cheeks,
lis men to stand their
r,! Reno, who led the Union
- at South Mountain Gap, was
kille 1 while urging his men forward.
General McPhcrson was the idol of
his soldiers. He was a man of princely
ng, the noblest sentiments and a
personal enrage which never failed
General Grant said that he re-
spected him for "all of the manly
virtues that can adorn a commander."
Had he lived he would undoubtedly
havi ranked in the hearts of the people along with Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan. After continuously expos-
ing himself to the lire of the enemy
for three yours it remained for him to
be the target of ft sharpshooter while
riding outside the works.
The bravery of General James S.
Wiulsworth, who knew not the meaning of bar, dually co't him his
life. He fell during the terrible fight
in the Wildern.-ss ou the same day that
General Robert E. Lue threw himself
Under tlu- China Tree.
Just across tho dusty country road,
opposite the station, was tho china
tne. It stood iu tho corner of the
zig-zag fence; its brown limbs were
bare save for the grout clusters of pale
gold berries which they hold aloft
against the blue sky. Throe robins,
already half intoxicated by tho delicious food, wero feasting on tho berries. Tho 1 roe, as if by somo sudden
caprice, had tossed down all at once
its yellow leaves; the brown earth
welcomed thom, and there they lay
shining iu the sunlight.
Sho stood beneath the tree, gowned
in gray, coarse .gray, home-spun,
homo-dyed; the largo hat shading hor
luce was mado of shucks, plaited by
long, tapering fingers, which had
been wont to wander over tho strings
of her guitar, while Hugh's lips whispered love's sweet words. Soft
mir, black as the eyes so full of
splendor, a complexion like the petals
of a magnolia, a face whose every fea
A gray heap lay under tho china
tree ; a face still aud pallid amid tho
yellow leaves shining iu tho sunlight.
--Blue and Gray.
A Chard* to Travel Far.
These are the days of strange migrations, as is shown in the case of a
church which is now being erected in
San Francisco. As soon as it is completed it will be taken apart and in
sections will be transported across tho
broad Pacific Ocean to Potropolvsk,
tho capital of Kamschatka, whence it
will travel on to the Copper Island
sealing station in tho Bering Sea.
It is built at tho expense of a sealing
company in St. Petersburg, and is in-
ture told of birth or blood, she stood, tended for the use of the Cossacks who
a fine-fibred aristocrat in the rough
garb of a plebeian.
Down tho railroad she strained her
eager eyes, shading them with one
small, white hand, whilo the other,
tight-clasped, held the letter with the
precious words: "I shall be with you
on Monday." On the other siito of
uaut - A minute later ho was lying the low fence, amid tho sassafras I (0r in the world for that matter) was
upon tho "round, a ritlo bullet in his bushes, Mammy Dilly, black, fat and the "Kalondarium Novum," com iled
, s I jolly, rested her arms on the top rail, j by one Relimoutauus nnd publisho.lat
the gran-pest act os ANY wail | "Dev be here pres'noy, honey. I j Budapest, Hungary, in the year 1475.
English poets sing of tho charge of | mighty anxious to see my boy and ! But one perfect copy is known to bo
guard the sealing interests of the island and for the Esquimaux. It will
be no tiny affair, for it will have a
seating capacity of live hundred.—
Sew York Herald.
The First Almanac.
The first almanac printed in Europo
the gallant Six Hundred, Frenchmen
have written on their hearts, "The
Old Guard dies, bur never surrenders."
So bard has ever suing tho praises of
Marse Hugh come; dey'll git 'em a ! in existence, and that is one in tho
furlough togedder, dey's so constan'. I British Museum.—St. Louis Republic.
Dar de train now."
It came nearer; it stopped. Isham
Major Keenan's men who had two- stepped out of the baggage-car, wear-
thirds of their cumber mown down by ; ing an old army cap, and a gray
leaden hail within ten minutes. Why | jacket with red trimmings.
should Americans speak of tho Balka-
lava incident as the greatest exhibition
of personal courage of modern times?
"Howdy, Isham I Howdy! Whar
Marse Hugh?"
"My Gord, mammy, is dat you? Is
At a recent meeting of the Schoolmasters' Association of Sow York, at
tbe Columbia College, it was advocated to eliminate compound proportion and cube-root from the arithmetic
taught in schools as being of no practical value.
Oh, wh'.t lorn* stories they will havi
their families of how thoy "dodiro.l tl
tloax, and then will roll up iheir sW-
show the half healed wound. With
quick step, they march on, David
men, for they are marchimr hom
come ap to tho last hill which overlooks Zik-
Uff, and they expect in a moment to se« the
dwolhnir places of their love 1 ones They
look, and as they look their cheek turns pale,
and their lip qtiivrs, and tholr hand invol-
| untarily comes down on the hilt of tho
, sword. "Where is ZiklaK? Where aro our
homes r thev. tv. Alas, the cnrllng smoke
above the ruin tells the tragedy '
The Amalek-ites have come down and con-
sumed the villa-re, and carried the mothers
and the wives, and the children of David and
his men Into captivity. Tho swarthy warriors stand fora few moments transfixed with
horror. Then tlieir eyes fchmee to each
other, and they bars* into uncontrollable
I weepini*. for when a Stmnij warrior wnopa
I lhe Jtrief is appalllnrr. It seems as if the
j emotion misrht tearhln to pieces T!i"v
"weptuntiltheyhadno-inorepowortowoep ;'
I But soon their sorrow turns into nu-, an 1
David, swinirin? his sword ht-rh in air, cries
'Pursue, for thou shall ovortake them, and
without fail recover all." Now the march
becomes a "double quick." Two hnndro 1 o!
David's men stop by the brook Besor, faint
with futiiriio an 1 crlef. They cannot fro «
step farther. They are left there. Brit the
other 400 men under David, with a sort ol
! panther step, march on in sorrow and in
| race. They Mod by the side of tho road a hall
dead Egyptian, and tbeyresus ■it-it" him an I
compel him to tell the whole story. He says,
"Yondr-r they went, the captoH an 1 the ean-
tlves, * pointing in the direction. Forward
ye 100 brave men of fire!
Very soon David and his enrages! company
come upon the Amalekltlsh host. Yonder
they see their own wives and children and
mothers, and under Amalekltlsh guar I. 1{,to
are tho officers of the Amalokltlsh army holding a banquet. The cups are full ■ the music
is roused ; the danc • bsagirts, The Amalekltlsh host che.-r and cheer aad sheer over their
''■#°ry_J*ut, without note of buglo or wain-
1 !iuu ono gliihcn ill tfie'ir iovod oWQ in captivity and under Amalekitish guard throws
thom into a very fury of determination, for
you know how men will fight when thoy light
for their wives and children. Ah, there are
lightnings in their eye, and every linger is a
spear, and their voice is like the shout ot tho
whirlwind! Amid the upset tankards an 1
the costly viands crushed underfoot, the
wounded Amalekites lie, their blood mln
gling with their win-, shrieking for
mercy. No sooner do David an I his men
win tho victory than they throw their swords
down into the dust—what do they want with
swords now'.'—arid the broken families como
together amid a great shout of joy that
makes the parting scene in Ziklag seem very
insipid lu the comparison. The rough o'.d
warrior has to use somo persuasion before
ho can get his ehlld to come to him now
after so long an absence, but soon tho little
llnAr traces the familiar wrinkle across tho
scarred faoe. And than the empty tankards
ar,-set up, and they are filled with the best
wine from the hills, and David and his men,
tho husbands, the wives, the brothers, tho
sisters, drink to the overthrow of the
Amalekites and lo the rebuilding of Ziklag.
So, O Lord, let Thine enemies perish !
Now they uro coming homo, David and
his men and their families -a loug procession. Men, women and children, loaded
with jewels and robes and with all kinds of
trophies that tho Amalekites had gathered
up in years of conquest—everything now in
tho hands of David and h.s men. When
thoy come by tho brook liesor, the place
where staid tho men sick and incompetent
to travel, tho jewels and tho robes and all
kinds of treasures aro divided among the
sick as well as among the well. Surely the
lame and exhaoste 1 ought to have some of
the treasures. Here is a robe for a pale-
faced warrior. H'to Is a pillow for this
dying mau. Here is a ban lful of gold for
the wasted trump,der. I really think that
these men who fainted by the brook Besor
may have endured as much as those men
who went into the battle. Home mean fellows objected to the siek ones having any of
the spoils. The object >rs said, '•These mon
did not light." David, with a magnanimous
heart, replies, "As his part is that goeth
down to tho battle, so sha'.l his part be that
tarrieth by the stuff."
This subject is practically suggestive to m<*.
Thank God, in these times a man can go oil
on a journey and he gone weeks and months
and eome back and see his house untouched
of incendiary and have his family on the
step to greet him if by telegram ho has foretold the moment of his coming. But there
aro Amalekitish disasters, there are Amalekitish diseases that sometimes com"S down
upon one's home, making as devastating
work as the day when Ziklag took lire.
There are families you represent broken up.
No battering ram smote in tho door, no
iconoclast crumbled the statues, no tlima
leaped amid the curtains, but so far as all
the joy and merriment that once belonged
to that houso are concerned the home has
departed.
Armed diseases came down upon the quietness ol the scene—scarlet fevers or pleurisies or consumptions or undefined disorders camo and seized upon somo members
of that family and carried them away. Ziklag in ashes ! And you go about, sometimes
Weeping and sometimes enraged, wanting to
get back your loved ones as much as David
and his men wanted to reconstruct their
despoiloil households. Ziklag in ashes!
Some of you went off trom home. You
counted the days of your absence. Every
day seemed as long as a week. Ob, how
glad you wore when the time came for you
to go aboard tho steamboat or railroad and
start for homo! Yon arrived. You went
up the street where your dwelling was, and
in tho night you put your hand on the
doorbell, and, behold ! it was wrappe 1 with
the signal of bereavement, and you found
that Amalakitish death, whieh has devastated a thousand otner households, had
blasted yours. You go about weeping ami i
the desolation of vour once happy home,
thinking of the bright eyes closed, an 1 the
noble hearts stopped, and the gentle hands
folded, and you weep until you havo no
more power to weep. Ziklag in ashes !
A gentleman went to a friend of mine in
the city of Washington and asked that
through him he might get a consulship to
some foreign port. My friend said to him :
"What do you want to go away from your
beautiful home for into a foreign port?
"Oh " he replied, "my homo is gone . My
Bix children are dead. I must get awny, sir.
I can't stand it in this country any longer.
Ziklag in ashes!
Why these loug shadows of bereavement
across this audlenc*? Why is it that in a'-
most every assemblage black is the pre lom-
inant color of the apparel? Is it beeauseyou
do not like saffron or brown or violet'{ Oh.
no ! You say "Tho world is not so bright
to aa as on-o It was," and there is a story of
silent voices, an 1 of .dill feet, au I of lovM
ones gone, and wli'-n yon look over the hill i
expecting only beauty and lovelin ss yo i
lind only devastation ani wo*. i. 'agin
ashes!
One day. In Ulster County, M. Y., th ' ''.'■-
lagechuroa was decorated uut". W* \%*
granco of the flowors was almost bowii,i«.
ing. Tho maidens of the village ha i emptied the place of flowers upon ono marriage
altar. One of their number was affianced to
a minister of Christ, who had come to tako
hor to his own homo. With hands joined,
amid a congratulatory audience, the vows
wero taken. In three days from that time
one of thoso who stood nt tnn altar exchanged earth for heaven. The wedding
march broke down into the fun"ral dirge.
There wero not enough flowers now forthe
co Inn lid, because they had all been taken
for the bridal hour. The dead minister of
Ciirist w brought to another village.
If-had gone out from them less thin a
we >k before in htsstrength-, now he cornea
home lifeless, The whole church bewailed
him. The solemn procession moved around
to look upon the still face that once had
beamed tho messages of salvation. Tittle
children wore lifted up to look at him. And
some of those whom he had comforted in
days of sorrow, when they passed that silent
form, made the place dreadful with their
weeping. Another village emptied of Its
flowers—somo of thom put in tho shape of a
cross to symbolize his hop", others put inthe
shape of a crown to symbolize Ills triumph.
A hundred lights blown out in ono strong
gust from the op-n door of a sepulchre.
Ziklag In ashes!
I preached this sermon to-day because I
want to rally you, as David rallied his mon,
f,,r the recovery of the lovo 1 and th" lost, I
want not only to win heaven, but I want all
this congregation to go along with me, I fed
that somehow I have a responsibility in your
arriving at that great city. Do you really
want to join the companionship of your love 1
who have gone? Are you as anxious
you any idea they were dead? Thoy have
only moved. If you should go on the 2d of
May to a houso where one of your friends
lived nnd find him gone, yon would not
think that ho was dead. You would inquire
next door whore he had moved to. Our departed Christian friends have only taken another house. The secret is that they are
richer than they once wero and cau afford a
better n»8i,lence. Thoy once drank out of
earthenware. Thr-y now drink from tho
King's chalice. "Joseph is yet alive," and
Jacob will go up and seo him. Living, are
they? Why, if a man cm live in this damp,
dark dungeon of earthly captivity, can be
not livo whero he breathes tho bracing atmosphere of the mountains of heaven? Oh,
yes, thoy are living !
Do you think that F.iul is so near dead
now ns ho was when he wis living In the
Iloman dungeon? Do you think that Frederick Robertson, of Brighton, is as near dead
now as ho was when, year after year, he
slept seated on the floor, his head on the
bottom of a chair, because he could find ease
In no other position? Do you think that
Robert Hall is as near dead now ns when on
his couch ho tossed in physical torture. No.
Death gave them the few black drops that
cured them. That is all death does to a
Christian—cures him. I know that what I
have said Implies that they are living. There
is no qu"stion about that. The only question this morning is whether you will ever
join thom.
But I must not forcot those 200 men who
fainted by the brook B"sor. They could not
take another step farther. Their feet were
sore; their head ached ; their entire nature
was exhausted. Besides that they w"ro
broken hearted because their homes were
to join thom as David and his men were to ! K°ne- Ziklag in ashes! And yd David
I when he comes up to them, divides tho
spoils amongthom ! He says they shall havo
some of the jewels, some of the robes, somo
of the treasures. I look over this audience
this morning, and I find at least 200 who
have fainted by the brook Besor—the brook
of tears. You feel as 11 you could not take
another step farther, as though you could
never look up again. But I am going to imitate David and divide among you somo
glorious trophies. H>>re is a robe. "All
things work together for goo 1 to those who
lovo Ood." Wrap yourself in that glorious
promise. Here is for your neck a string of
P"arl3 made out ot crystallized tears,
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
eometh in the morning." Here is a coron"t.
"Be thou faithful unto death, and I will
give thee a crown of life." On, ye fainting
ones by the brook Besor, dip yonr blistered
feet in tho running 8-ream of God's mercy,
bathe your brow at the welis oi. salvation,
soothe your woun Is with the balsam that
exudes from tr-- >s of life. Got will not
utterly cast you off, O broken hearted man,
O broken hearted woman, fainting by the
brook Besor!
A shepher l fin Is that his musical pipe is
bruised. He says: "I can't get anymore
music out of this instrument, so I will just
break it, an 1 I will throw this rood away.
Then I will get another reed, and I will piay
music on that." But Oo I says He will not
oast you off because all the music his gonrs
out of your sou';. "The bruise I ree I He will
not break.'1 As far as I can tell the diagnosis of your disease, vou want divine nursing, and it is promise 1 you, "As one whon
his mother eomtorteth so will I comfort
you." God will see you all the way through,
0 trouble i soul, and wle-n you come dowu
to the Jordan of death you will tin I it to be
as thin a brook as ]{-sor, for Dr. Robinson
says that in April li-sor dries up and there is
no brook at all. And in your last moment
you will be aa placid as the Kentucky min-
!^8hiwiim)r?vOii1} 3? ..V> g?*!,»»?"« iQ the
deathbed. Tell her there is not a word
of truth In it, lor I am thora now. and Jesus
is with ui". and I tlu 1 it a very happy way,
not because I am a goo 1 man, for I am not.
1 am nothing but a poor, miserable sinner.
but I have an Almighty Saviour, aad both of
His arms are around me."
May God Almighty, through tho bloo 1 of
tho everlasting covenant, bring us into the
companionship of our loved ones who havo
already entered the heavenly laud and into
the presence of Christ, whom, not having
sen. we love, and so David shall recover
all, "and as his part Is that goeth dowu to
tho battle, so shall his part bo that tarrieth
by the stuff."
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Toi.stoi, tho Russian novelist, was born nt
Tuba, August**, 1828.
Pbofesbob Hknuv Moiu.ky died recently at
Carlsbrooko, Isle of Wight.
Mit. Pavi-K, a risintr London novelist, Is a
clerk in the Bank of England.
Th« King of Greece is an excellent swimmer and has a perfect passion for fishing.
Pantos Birmabck would rather havo a sum
cure for rheumatism thau all the titles in
T-'.nrop".
Prmidkxt Carrot, of Franc", reiterated
nis decision not to present himselt for reelection.
flF.strut, O. O. Howabu has been elected
President o" the National Temperanee Society, to jra weed John Wanamaker.
Mrs. IT. 8. Chant says that she has not
yet decid"! waft-lew she will reside permanently in New York or in W ishin rtou.
Tiih.'.t.if.st with belladonna has so
strengthened one of Mr. Gladstone's eyes
join their families? Then I am Iuto, in the
nam" of God, to say that you may and to
tell you how.
I remark. In tho lirst place, if you want to
join your loved ones in glory, you must
travel the same way they went. No sooner
nad the tifi.tr dead Egyptian been resuscitated
than he pointed the way the captors and tho
captives had gone, and David and hi- men
followed after. So our Christian friends
have gone into another country, an.l if we
want to reach their companionship wa must
tako the same road. They repented. We
must rep-nt. They prayed. We must pray.
They trusted in Christ Wo must trust In
Christ. They lived a religious life. We must
live a religious life. They were in somo
things like ourselves. I know, now thev are
gone, there is a halo around their names.
but they had their faults. They said ant
dl 1 tilings they ought n-v -r to hav • s i! 1 or
done. They were sometimes .rebellious,
sometimes cast down. They ware tar Irom
being perfect. So I suppose that when we
have gone somethings In us that arc bow
only tolerable may be almost resplendent.
But as they wore like us in deficiencies we
ouriittobe like them iu taking a supernal
Christ to make up for the deficits. Had It
not bo"n for Jesus they would havo all
perished, but Christ confronted them and
Slid. "I am the way," an I they took it.
I have also to s iy to you that the pith that
these captives tr > I was a troubl • 1 ;, ith. an I
that David an 1 his men had to go over the
samo difficult way. While those captives
were being taken off they said, ".)'>, w are
so tire l; we are s>> sick : we ar" -o hungry !"
But the men who had charge of them said
"Stop tills cry.ng. Goon!'' David and his
men also foun I it a hard w iy. They ha 1 to
travel it. Our frien Is bave gon i Into Hlory,
and tt to through much tribulation that we
are to outer into the kingdom. How our
loved ones use I to liavo to s'ru fgle ! Ho.v
their old hearts ache I! How sometimefl
Wfiii".!.-*. ,iu"iiia-.V aaaaajaaa. - '.' -i- uu
that what were called "crow's teet" on their
faces wore the marka of the blaok raven of
trouble. Did you ever hear the old people,
seated by the evening stan 1, talk over their
early trials, their hardships, the .■,•-,-
dents, the burials, the disappointments, Ci;
empty flour barrel when there w-r, so many
hungry ones to feed, the slekivss almost
unto death, where the n,-xt dos- of morphine
decided between ghastly bereavement and
an unbroken homo circle? Oh, yes! It was
trouble that whitened their hair. It was
trouble that shook the cup In their hands. It
was troublo that washed the luster from
their eyes with the rain of tears until they
needed spectacles. It was trouble that made
the can,- a necessity for their Journey. Do
you never remember scing your ol 1 mother
sitting on some rainy day looking out of the
window, her elbow on the win low sill, her
hand to her brow, looking out, not se ling
the falling shower at all (you well knew she
was looking Into the distant past), until the
apron came up to her eyes because the memory was too much for her?
Oft the bl?, unt.l'lden tear.
Stealing down the fun-owe I check,
T,,l I In eloquence rtneere
Tal.-s »f woe th,'}- could not speak.
Uut. tills scene of w,..-pin,' o'er.
Past this scent! or toll and pain,
Tl'.-v shall feel distress no more,
"Who are those under the altar?" tho
question was asked, and the response came,
"These aro they which came out of great
tribulation and have washed their robes and
mado thom whito in tho bloo ! of tho Lamb."
Our friends went by a path of tears into
glory. Bo not surprised if we have to travel
the same pathway.
I remark again, if wo want to win the society of our friends In heaven, we will not
Only have to travel a path of faith and a path
of tribulation, but wo will also have to positively battle for their companionship. David
and his men never wanted sharp swords, aud
lnvuln-Table shields, and thick breastplates
go much a3 they wanted them on the day
when they came down upon the AmeUkttes,
If they had lost that battle, they never would
have got their families back. I suppose that
one glance at their loved ones iu captivity
hurled them into the battle with tenfold
courage and energy. They said : "We must
win it. Everything depends upon it. L>'t
each one take a man on point of spear or
sword. We must win it." And I have to
toll you that between us an I coming into tho
companionship of our loved one3 trho aro
departed there is an Austerlttz, there is a
Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo. War with
the world, war with tho flesh, war with the
devil. We have either to conquer our troubles, or our troubles will conquer us. David
will either slay tho Amalekites. ortho Amalekites Will slay David. And yet is not the
fort to be taken worth all the pain, all tho
peril, all the besiegement?
Look ! Who are they oa tho bright hills
of heaven yonder? Thero they nre, thoso
who sat at your own table, the chair now
vncant. There they nre, those whom you
rocked in infancy in the oradlo or hushed to
sleep in your arms. There thoy are, those J
in whose life your life was hound up. There j
they are, their brow more radiant than ever j
beforo you saw it, their lips waiting for the :
kiss of heavenly greeting, their cheek roseate ,
with the health of eternal summer, their
hands beckoning you up the steep, tho feet
bounding with the mirth of heaven. Tho
pallor of their last sickness gone out of their
face, nevermore to be sick, nevermore to
cough, nevermore to limp, nevermore to be
old, nevermore to weep. They are watching
from thoso heights to see if through Christ
you can take that fori, and whether you will
rush in upon them—victors. They know
that upon this battle depends whether you
will ever join their society. Up! Strike
harder! Charge moro bravely 1 Remember
that every inch ycu gain puts you so much
farther on toward that heavenly reunion.
If this morning while I speak you could
bear the cannonade of a foreii*n enemy
whieh was to despoil your city, and lf they
really should succeed in carrying your
families awav from yon. how long would we
take before we resolved to go after themr1
Every weapon, whether fresh from the
armory or old and rusty in the garret, would
be brought out, and we would urge on, and
coming In front of tho foe wo would look at
them and then look at our families, and the
cry would be. "Victory or death !" and when
the ammunition was gone we would take the
captors on the point of the bayonet or under
the breech of the gun.
If you would make such a struggle tor
the getting back of your earthly friends, will
you not maKe as much struggle for the gaining of the eternal companionship of your
heavenlv friends? Oh, yes, we must join
thom! We must sit in their holy society.
Wo must 9iag with them the song. We
mTnt Mtebnte with thom the triumph. Dot
it never be told on earth or in heaven that
David nnd his men pushed out with braver
hearts for the getting back of their earthly
friends for a f-w vears on earth than we to
get our departed !
You sav that all this implies that our departed Christian friends ore alive. Why, hat
•Il
eal arid write without
•vv wis p laeaf*
D ■:• du mily. H
use he w is disapo
1 In
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LATER NEWS.
that heis enabl
difficulty.
The King of
Prance an 1 Bpea!
camo a barbarian
ed in a love affair.
Tux. Austrian Empress's brother, Dttka
Charles Thoo lore, ol Bavaria, has painwl
at Sleran his free practice as an oculist for
the benellt of the poor.
Th iFKSsoa Oskki, a celebrated
historian, is a vegetarian, who*
dinn t is bntt «re 1 rolls an 1 r. llsho
down with old water.
The Czarow'.t/ oi Russia is said to bo fll*.
inclined to marry. It" wiats to rev,-rice
throno in favor of his
Grand Du'v-eM-Cn d.
Tts;tf.t> Stati-s SEXATona Pkoctou and
Dubois are as ard'n* trout anglers as Senator Quay is a tarpon Usher nan. The 'or a -r
took in the op >ning of the season in Vermont,
Ebkk .Tor.oF.Nsrv. the firearms inventor, is
a portlv. woll-p.is'l man, with dark eves
and fail gray beard. Ho o •■•apies the position In the Norway Armory ol boss en a,-or,
or gunmaker.
Listm.XA.vr P*a»t's title te one of courtesy
only. He is a eivil engineer an I not a I'm >
officer. He has spent mor" tb-in one-quart t
,,; his time since he eutero I the navy in th I
Arcti" regions.
ML E. Iv.iM.t.s, President of the "Rig
Four' railroads, worked hia way through
Harvard Law School, sleeping on the ft > >r
of a friend's law office an I eatin r his m xUs
wherever he could get them.
Cart, ZABJiAHa'a record of forty vears'
lea lership of the Boston Hmlel aa I H ivdu
Society is sal 1 to be unsurpiss 11 in tii" his-
" musi*. no other >')n In -tor ever hav-
d charge for so long a time of any
musical society.
GKtuiATtn Gadk. tho American Consul :rt
Chlstlanla, Norway, who was appointed in
ISoO by General Grant, is the oldest consul
in the service, with the ex -option of Consul
Bprague, at Gibraltar. Ho wiil celebrate his
jubilee on June 23.
Dn. sTouii A. Axr.Ritwa, ot Worcester,
Mass.. has been in practice over s:xty years,
■during forty-eight of which he answer" 1
calls dav and night, and now. at th . age o.'
ninetv-one, he still has a large office prae-
tlee, "and he includes am m,* his patients
some of the third gen-ration he has troato U
Thk Presbyterian Assembly at Saratoga,
N. Y., adopted a report recommending thai
the General Assembly assume direct control
of all theological seminaries ia tho Church,
Thk loss at Williamsport and Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania, by tiio floods Is estimated at $3,000,000.
The Southwest Pass Lighthous", at the
mouth of the Mississippi River, Louisiana,
has been destroyed by fire. It was a first
order fixed light. The str.i -ture was Iii foot
in height, and was built early In tho seventies at a cost of 1160,000.
Conoressman W. C. Oatks was nominated
for Governor of Alabama by the state Convention at Montgomery, defeating Johnson,
tho anti-Cleveland candidate. 272 to 2)2.
The cornor stone of a monument to bo
erected in honor of the unknown Confederate dead of North Carolina wis laid In
Raleigh. Walter Grimes was tho principal
speaker of the day. There was an immense
gathering of persons from all parts of the
State. /
Fire has destroyed tho busin-ss portion of
Jasper, Fla.
In a shooting affray la Hanford, Cal.
James McCaffrey was kill" I an 1 J imes Ryan
mortally wounded. Eight man were engaged
In the fight, which resulted from McCaffrey's
attempt to prevent Ryan's sojn vising at a
primary election.
The cornor stone of tho first Pythian
Home in the world was laid in Springfleld,
Ohio, with impressive ceremonies. H. W.
Lewis. Grand Chancellor of Ohio, presided.
William Brooks, a colored man, employed
by W. A. Taylor, farmer. In Forest City, Ark.,
was shot and killed by unknown persons.
Brooks had proposed for the hand of his employer's daughter in marring" and had been
driven off the farm. A colored man, who
assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl iu Arlington, Ga., nnd subsequently shot her father,
was taken from the jail ,u that placo by an
armed band of citizens, who hanged him
from a tree in the public square.
The President nominated A. W. Bradbury
lo be District-Attorney for Maine.
The Queen of England has knight id Isaac
Pitman, the inventor of the Pitman system
of phonetic shorthand.
President Peixoto's course in suspending
relations with Portugal was sustained by the
Brazilian Houso of Deputies.
The French Ministry was defeated In tho
Chamber of Deputies by a vote or 275 to 225,
whereupon they informed President Carnot
that thoy would resign. It was looked upon
as a victory for tho Socialists.
THE LABOR WOULD.
It requires forty men to mako an ax.
ago.
A liLACKffsiiTn In Jerusalem can make tjl. 93
per week.
Or the 25,000 bookbinders in this country
only 5000 aro organized.
The Swiss watch industry is suffering
from severe depression.
A Beef-Boxers' TJxiox has boon organized in Kansas City, Mo.
The union clerks at Nashville, Tonn.,
have organized a fife and drum corps.
The initiation fee of Laborers' Union Protective Society has been raised to -J 10.
The number of textile workers in this
country is estimated at about 800,000.
A movement is on foot to increase tho
wages of boys in glass factories ten per
cent.
CnicAQo's Health Commissioner will organize forty medical students as sweat shop
inspectors.
The fourth linnual convention of tho National Textile Union was hold recently in
Philadelphia.
The 'Longshoremen's National Union Is
now about ono year old, and it has thirty-
two local branches.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers held, recently, its annual National
Convention nt St. Paul, Minn.
The labor organizations in Jersey City
Heights, N. J., formed an association to establish a Labor Lyceum in that vicinity.
Is consequence of the eo il strikes In this
country Scotch mine owners wera asket to
tender shipmonts of coal for the United
States.
I'RKstiiENT Mi-Bride estimated that 175,-
000 out ol the l'Jl.00) bituminous coal
miners in tho United Statss joined tho
strike.
Busi-.v'Ess men of Now York City, who have
in their employment 20,003 boys, have determined to give th" preferen • i to hoys that
do not smoke cigarettes.
The oldest guild in Eug'rm 1 is the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. It still
enjoys the ancient rigid ui inspecting any
smith's shop within four miles oi the boundary of Loudon.
Tiie ilrst contract given out for stone under the recent Ne-.v York State law, which
provides that all stone used in the state or
municipal work shall be cut an 1 dressed in
and by citizens of the State, is for the court
house ot Rensselaer Couuty. The prico is
$110,000.
Captain- Wili.iax Henry Smith, seventy-
six years of age. is the eldest employe in the
service of the Baltimore and Ohio lldlroad.
lie is iii charge of ail engineering work con.
nected witl| lhe right ot way from the rius.
ouehanna tolhe Schuylkill River. He be.
e'amo connected wi-'-b tho commny in 1837.
DEVELOP THE SOUTH.
lory
HER EYES GOUGED OUT.
An Anglo-Japanese School Teach "r
Preacies Against a Native Deity.
Advices by the Empress of India state th l
Miss Imhoff, a teacher in tho Anglo-I iinn-
ajasvo school at Yonewaza, Japan, went ini
the temple devoted to the go I I"* ya . ■' i
tho day devote 1 by the natives I
ship of that go I and preaehe I
worship of grav m images
the native deity. At the enu ■iiisi.-i <
sermon Miss Imhoff was c-ias.l. ku
dowu with ilea** aa I her «y*t pvic o i<
:iinst
ani sn*»rini
A Powerful Association Organized
to Colonize Lands
The Matiuiactur-ts' Record states that a
| powerful association has been organize 1 hj
I leading capitalists, bankers and railroad of-
lli-ers, nnderthe name of tho Southern Im-
migration. Land ani Title Company, tho
purpose oi which is to eolonfee an 1 develop
Southern land-', aul le gen iral to br->t immigration and investment to tne South, Tho
scope an 1 plans of tho eompiuy are on tha
broa b-st scale, an I it will hire in the Unit" I
States an 1 Earopeajk countries lhe widest
an I most influential connections.
Tiie main office will ba in Baltimore, with
agencies and branches in important centors
in this country ani In Canada and Groat
Britain and on the continent.
The projectors n'. t he company have been
for some years i lepti'i) I with Southern development, aud are all men of noted ability
and business sagacity. The President of tho
company is Hon. Chauneey V Sleek, ot
Pennsylvania , r'irst Vice-President, Mr. Julius s.Carr, the millionaire tobacco manu-
factnrer, of Durham. N. C ; Second floe*
Po«i.lent, Mr. M. Erakfne Miller, of Staunton, probably the largest in iividual coal
landowner in the▼irsinlas; Third Vice-
President md General M vt u ;r. Hr. A. V.
Arthur, out of the leaden in S mtiicrt development.
Among tin, dr--tors are Hou. John R.
Proctor, President ol th i Unite I -V-v» Civil
Berries Commission ; Dr. C. If. Daai-y. Jr.,
Assistant Secretary °« ,!l-' United States Department oi agriculture . John SkeJloa Will
lams, banker, of Biehmond, Va. . 0. B. Or-
cum. President ol lhe Newport New.) Snip
buil.iin.- as I l»ry D . k r , up my . Governor
W. A. M -i 'Crklf. oi West Virginia. W. A.
Tur„. '■!!■■!■ il p i^.s rug.-r u.-iit i.l tha Krcii-
mon , and D.-uivili" 1*. nnoid ; W. H. Fuller,
general pass n-cr .agent of tne Uueeapeaka.
and Ohio Bailroa 1; Bdw.n Fitej, tC->., iraflU
mauag-r o! tho Eaxt Tenncaseo, Vir/unaau I
Georgia Ra-lro.i 1. wlothiritutdfei>'*-i!*iM|
men ideutill • i • • -outhern growth.

NORRISTOWN-
nti
for
of lSfifl
•'■1 the
1 man j
»L Tl
their &
Unite.
Bcene
■ mem
Bald
a Sei
tho C
Ir
rathern
■ne leave their
.gainst the flag
entury old. The
ivaril Dickinson
Engla of the
fttor from Ore-
haml>er, dressed
of a Federal colonel,
r 1 which ho had
ista npon his desk, de-
tingnishetl andience:
'■: the people is here
i The majesty of the
1 I come, :\ wanderer
Pacific, to record my
of the East."
in
S<
:u ms piace m i
• tbe mantle of
iiiiif;.rui of the
ura ut Ball's
* with-
,,f the enemy
every moment
1!. treat he
surrender he
trout of the
rs np the hill
lame from the
id his instant
■ti-.-, tho men
■as with diffi-
' .,,,.. ,.r «,,
honored this
I. F.v.'.R LIVE.
i ol Colonel Ells-
York Zouaves ai
y his clever strata-
i number of Union
a a martyr to the
i and inflamed the i
rti widely inourneil
on our side who
irt. A Confederate
attracted his nt-
bed to the roof to
li i] 1 my trophy !"
t,. his men in tho
!" ex-
■ his hiding
a bullet in Ells-
minute later the
li, 1 just fate ut tho
1 Fe leral private.
1.1',! S BEAVERX.
if < leueral Meade
atenant did more
ader his command
s'liou-.lid victory at
r had such ti scene
e been witnessed
Massena wedged
tho Austrian lines
lion line was falter-
diu Haskell
isin was .sent
itorcemeuts.
h r his own
troops and
the proper
• 1 back the terrific
allaut work ho was
1 Congress was pre-
■ n a star when he
of the iightinig at
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SEItMON.
The Subject: "Recovered Families"
(Preached at Little Rock, Ark.)
Text : "Tlion Dnvid nnd tho people that
I Were with him lifted up their voice an 1 wept
; until thoy had no moro power to w"op. *
i* * David recovered all."—I Samuel xxx..
; 4, 19.
Then it Intense excitement In the village
oi/.lkliitr. David and his men am bidding
goodhy to their families an 1 nre orr for th,.
wars. In that littlo village of Ziklng tho de-
fenseleae onos will be safe until tho warriors
niisho,l with victory, como homo. But will
tho defenseless onos he safoV Tho soft arms
or children aro around tho nooks of tho
bronze warriors until thoy shake themselves
free nnd start, and handkerchiefs and flaps
aro wave 1 ,ind kisses thrown until tho arme 1
men vanish beyond the hills, David an 1 his
men soon fret through with their campaign
nnd start homeward. Every night on their
way home no sooner does tho soldier put hk
head on the knapsack than in his dream lie
hoars the welcome of the wife and tho shout
of tho chili).
i to tell
io bat-
re and
Clad,
and his
Now they
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tecuhseh sherjiaw v
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IH6 SHERIDAN
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AT
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cth Wi
ritiLC
at
nt thrihead of Greeg's Texana to chargi
and they, brave men, refused to nu.v
a step until he had withdrawn to tho
rear, when they rent the air with their |
blood curdling yell and bore down !
upon the opposing companies like famished lions released from bondage.
(Ieneral Wadaworth was one of the
wealthiest men in Western Sew York, >
nearly sixty years of age, handsome in
face (in.l figure, an officer and a gen-
tlem.ui, who, at the beginning of the
war, offered himself and his purse to
the cause of the Union. After 1700
out of the 5000 men he led into the
light had been swept away by ti per- '
teet hailstorm of bullets, the remnant
broke to pieces. It was whilo try in.:; I
to reform his shattered forces that he-
met his death.
WILLIAMS AND SEDGWICK.
Probably no man was more beloved |
by his soldiers than T. S. Williams,
who fell in n skirmish at Baton Rouge ;
while leading his men into action, ami
admonished them to keep tlieir line
tirm with his dying wdfrda.
General Sedgwick was another of the
prominent commanders who were reck-
lessly brave. He was superintending
! the building of a battery and said to
his men, who wero wincing under the
enemy's fierce lire, "Don't worry.
Those fellows could not hit an ele-
If they will read the story of the fight
ut Chancellorsville they will learn of
men who went to death as bravely as
any who ever fell in battle.
"You must chnrgo into tho wood*.
and hold tho enemy in chick until
these batteries aro placed, " wus 1'leas-
ontou'a command.
"I will," was all that Major Keenan
answered with a smile upon his lips,
HIUIUu^u "v. —— * ar f
come out of the conflict nlivo.
Not a man of that regiment faltered,
although each know the order to advance was his death warrant. With a
demonstration ot strength almost superhuman, they held back the enemy
without losing a foot of ground unti
the command came for them to go to
the rear. Covered with blood and
blackened with smoke, that shattered
remnant retired, but with the knowledge that they had been of inestimable service to the cause of the Union.
It was a demonstration of courage
which not only compares with but excels any other in the history of warfare, for these men were not tho Old
(liuird of Sapoleou, the heroes of many
[campaigns, nor the flower of the
English cavalry drilled for many years
to march and act as a unit, but a company of citizen soldiery, untrained in
the art of war, unused to the sight of
carnage, who had come at a moment's
> warning from the workshop, the farm,
1 the office to defend the country and
the cause which their ancestors hud
i fought for through seven painful
■ years.
AT
GftMWOOD.
Wm^^>m. £fe
/y-
i,--
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st 1
Oh, mam-
nek to do
! How I gwino
buck to de houso
oinin' home?"
,lat MissMarg'et, yandi
my, b-ck Miss Mar.
house,"
"You fottl, boy!
t.ck Miss Marg'et
when Marse Hugh i
Men were lowering something from
the baggage-ear; Isham saw it
through a rain of sudden tears, and
taking off his cap, said, with bowed
head: "Marse Hugh —done—done
come home—to stay, mammy—wid a
! bullet in his broils'. "
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wi 11
he
I !
irthy of bettor disciplined
betti r fate," said General
he heard of Colonel Bob-
Baton Rouge. Roberts
mud of tho Seventeenth
lich lost its courage at
enemy and began
le wus shot dead while,
inning down his cheeks,
lis men to stand their
r,! Reno, who led the Union
- at South Mountain Gap, was
kille 1 while urging his men forward.
General McPhcrson was the idol of
his soldiers. He was a man of princely
ng, the noblest sentiments and a
personal enrage which never failed
General Grant said that he re-
spected him for "all of the manly
virtues that can adorn a commander."
Had he lived he would undoubtedly
havi ranked in the hearts of the people along with Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan. After continuously expos-
ing himself to the lire of the enemy
for three yours it remained for him to
be the target of ft sharpshooter while
riding outside the works.
The bravery of General James S.
Wiulsworth, who knew not the meaning of bar, dually co't him his
life. He fell during the terrible fight
in the Wildern.-ss ou the same day that
General Robert E. Lue threw himself
Under tlu- China Tree.
Just across tho dusty country road,
opposite the station, was tho china
tne. It stood iu tho corner of the
zig-zag fence; its brown limbs were
bare save for the grout clusters of pale
gold berries which they hold aloft
against the blue sky. Throe robins,
already half intoxicated by tho delicious food, wero feasting on tho berries. Tho 1 roe, as if by somo sudden
caprice, had tossed down all at once
its yellow leaves; the brown earth
welcomed thom, and there they lay
shining iu the sunlight.
Sho stood beneath the tree, gowned
in gray, coarse .gray, home-spun,
homo-dyed; the largo hat shading hor
luce was mado of shucks, plaited by
long, tapering fingers, which had
been wont to wander over tho strings
of her guitar, while Hugh's lips whispered love's sweet words. Soft
mir, black as the eyes so full of
splendor, a complexion like the petals
of a magnolia, a face whose every fea
A gray heap lay under tho china
tree ; a face still aud pallid amid tho
yellow leaves shining iu tho sunlight.
--Blue and Gray.
A Chard* to Travel Far.
These are the days of strange migrations, as is shown in the case of a
church which is now being erected in
San Francisco. As soon as it is completed it will be taken apart and in
sections will be transported across tho
broad Pacific Ocean to Potropolvsk,
tho capital of Kamschatka, whence it
will travel on to the Copper Island
sealing station in tho Bering Sea.
It is built at tho expense of a sealing
company in St. Petersburg, and is in-
ture told of birth or blood, she stood, tended for the use of the Cossacks who
a fine-fibred aristocrat in the rough
garb of a plebeian.
Down tho railroad she strained her
eager eyes, shading them with one
small, white hand, whilo the other,
tight-clasped, held the letter with the
precious words: "I shall be with you
on Monday." On the other siito of
uaut - A minute later ho was lying the low fence, amid tho sassafras I (0r in the world for that matter) was
upon tho "round, a ritlo bullet in his bushes, Mammy Dilly, black, fat and the "Kalondarium Novum," com iled
, s I jolly, rested her arms on the top rail, j by one Relimoutauus nnd publisho.lat
the gran-pest act os ANY wail | "Dev be here pres'noy, honey. I j Budapest, Hungary, in the year 1475.
English poets sing of tho charge of | mighty anxious to see my boy and ! But one perfect copy is known to bo
guard the sealing interests of the island and for the Esquimaux. It will
be no tiny affair, for it will have a
seating capacity of live hundred.—
Sew York Herald.
The First Almanac.
The first almanac printed in Europo
the gallant Six Hundred, Frenchmen
have written on their hearts, "The
Old Guard dies, bur never surrenders."
So bard has ever suing tho praises of
Marse Hugh come; dey'll git 'em a ! in existence, and that is one in tho
furlough togedder, dey's so constan'. I British Museum.—St. Louis Republic.
Dar de train now."
It came nearer; it stopped. Isham
Major Keenan's men who had two- stepped out of the baggage-car, wear-
thirds of their cumber mown down by ; ing an old army cap, and a gray
leaden hail within ten minutes. Why | jacket with red trimmings.
should Americans speak of tho Balka-
lava incident as the greatest exhibition
of personal courage of modern times?
"Howdy, Isham I Howdy! Whar
Marse Hugh?"
"My Gord, mammy, is dat you? Is
At a recent meeting of the Schoolmasters' Association of Sow York, at
tbe Columbia College, it was advocated to eliminate compound proportion and cube-root from the arithmetic
taught in schools as being of no practical value.
Oh, wh'.t lorn* stories they will havi
their families of how thoy "dodiro.l tl
tloax, and then will roll up iheir sW-
show the half healed wound. With
quick step, they march on, David
men, for they are marchimr hom
come ap to tho last hill which overlooks Zik-
Uff, and they expect in a moment to se« the
dwolhnir places of their love 1 ones They
look, and as they look their cheek turns pale,
and their lip qtiivrs, and tholr hand invol-
| untarily comes down on the hilt of tho
, sword. "Where is ZiklaK? Where aro our
homes r thev. tv. Alas, the cnrllng smoke
above the ruin tells the tragedy '
The Amalek-ites have come down and con-
sumed the villa-re, and carried the mothers
and the wives, and the children of David and
his men Into captivity. Tho swarthy warriors stand fora few moments transfixed with
horror. Then tlieir eyes fchmee to each
other, and they bars* into uncontrollable
I weepini*. for when a Stmnij warrior wnopa
I lhe Jtrief is appalllnrr. It seems as if the
j emotion misrht tearhln to pieces T!i"v
"weptuntiltheyhadno-inorepowortowoep ;'
I But soon their sorrow turns into nu-, an 1
David, swinirin? his sword ht-rh in air, cries
'Pursue, for thou shall ovortake them, and
without fail recover all." Now the march
becomes a "double quick." Two hnndro 1 o!
David's men stop by the brook Besor, faint
with futiiriio an 1 crlef. They cannot fro «
step farther. They are left there. Brit the
other 400 men under David, with a sort ol
! panther step, march on in sorrow and in
| race. They Mod by the side of tho road a hall
dead Egyptian, and tbeyresus ■it-it" him an I
compel him to tell the whole story. He says,
"Yondr-r they went, the captoH an 1 the ean-
tlves, * pointing in the direction. Forward
ye 100 brave men of fire!
Very soon David and his enrages! company
come upon the Amalekltlsh host. Yonder
they see their own wives and children and
mothers, and under Amalekltlsh guar I. 1{,to
are tho officers of the Amalokltlsh army holding a banquet. The cups are full ■ the music
is roused ; the danc • bsagirts, The Amalekltlsh host che.-r and cheer aad sheer over their
''■#°ry_J*ut, without note of buglo or wain-
1 !iuu ono gliihcn ill tfie'ir iovod oWQ in captivity and under Amalekitish guard throws
thom into a very fury of determination, for
you know how men will fight when thoy light
for their wives and children. Ah, there are
lightnings in their eye, and every linger is a
spear, and their voice is like the shout ot tho
whirlwind! Amid the upset tankards an 1
the costly viands crushed underfoot, the
wounded Amalekites lie, their blood mln
gling with their win-, shrieking for
mercy. No sooner do David an I his men
win tho victory than they throw their swords
down into the dust—what do they want with
swords now'.'—arid the broken families como
together amid a great shout of joy that
makes the parting scene in Ziklag seem very
insipid lu the comparison. The rough o'.d
warrior has to use somo persuasion before
ho can get his ehlld to come to him now
after so long an absence, but soon tho little
llnAr traces the familiar wrinkle across tho
scarred faoe. And than the empty tankards
ar,-set up, and they are filled with the best
wine from the hills, and David and his men,
tho husbands, the wives, the brothers, tho
sisters, drink to the overthrow of the
Amalekites and lo the rebuilding of Ziklag.
So, O Lord, let Thine enemies perish !
Now they uro coming homo, David and
his men and their families -a loug procession. Men, women and children, loaded
with jewels and robes and with all kinds of
trophies that tho Amalekites had gathered
up in years of conquest—everything now in
tho hands of David and h.s men. When
thoy come by tho brook liesor, the place
where staid tho men sick and incompetent
to travel, tho jewels and tho robes and all
kinds of treasures aro divided among the
sick as well as among the well. Surely the
lame and exhaoste 1 ought to have some of
the treasures. Here is a robe for a pale-
faced warrior. H'to Is a pillow for this
dying mau. Here is a ban lful of gold for
the wasted trump,der. I really think that
these men who fainted by the brook Besor
may have endured as much as those men
who went into the battle. Home mean fellows objected to the siek ones having any of
the spoils. The object >rs said, '•These mon
did not light." David, with a magnanimous
heart, replies, "As his part is that goeth
down to tho battle, so sha'.l his part be that
tarrieth by the stuff."
This subject is practically suggestive to mk before in htsstrength-, now he cornea
home lifeless, The whole church bewailed
him. The solemn procession moved around
to look upon the still face that once had
beamed tho messages of salvation. Tittle
children wore lifted up to look at him. And
some of those whom he had comforted in
days of sorrow, when they passed that silent
form, made the place dreadful with their
weeping. Another village emptied of Its
flowers—somo of thom put in tho shape of a
cross to symbolize his hop", others put inthe
shape of a crown to symbolize Ills triumph.
A hundred lights blown out in ono strong
gust from the op-n door of a sepulchre.
Ziklag In ashes!
I preached this sermon to-day because I
want to rally you, as David rallied his mon,
f,,r the recovery of the lovo 1 and th" lost, I
want not only to win heaven, but I want all
this congregation to go along with me, I fed
that somehow I have a responsibility in your
arriving at that great city. Do you really
want to join the companionship of your love 1
who have gone? Are you as anxious
you any idea they were dead? Thoy have
only moved. If you should go on the 2d of
May to a houso where one of your friends
lived nnd find him gone, yon would not
think that ho was dead. You would inquire
next door whore he had moved to. Our departed Christian friends have only taken another house. The secret is that they are
richer than they once wero and cau afford a
better n»8i,lence. Thoy once drank out of
earthenware. Thr-y now drink from tho
King's chalice. "Joseph is yet alive," and
Jacob will go up and seo him. Living, are
they? Why, if a man cm live in this damp,
dark dungeon of earthly captivity, can be
not livo whero he breathes tho bracing atmosphere of the mountains of heaven? Oh,
yes, thoy are living !
Do you think that F.iul is so near dead
now ns ho was when he wis living In the
Iloman dungeon? Do you think that Frederick Robertson, of Brighton, is as near dead
now as ho was when, year after year, he
slept seated on the floor, his head on the
bottom of a chair, because he could find ease
In no other position? Do you think that
Robert Hall is as near dead now ns when on
his couch ho tossed in physical torture. No.
Death gave them the few black drops that
cured them. That is all death does to a
Christian—cures him. I know that what I
have said Implies that they are living. There
is no qu"stion about that. The only question this morning is whether you will ever
join thom.
But I must not forcot those 200 men who
fainted by the brook B"sor. They could not
take another step farther. Their feet were
sore; their head ached ; their entire nature
was exhausted. Besides that they w"ro
broken hearted because their homes were
to join thom as David and his men were to ! K°ne- Ziklag in ashes! And yd David
I when he comes up to them, divides tho
spoils amongthom ! He says they shall havo
some of the jewels, some of the robes, somo
of the treasures. I look over this audience
this morning, and I find at least 200 who
have fainted by the brook Besor—the brook
of tears. You feel as 11 you could not take
another step farther, as though you could
never look up again. But I am going to imitate David and divide among you somo
glorious trophies. H>>re is a robe. "All
things work together for goo 1 to those who
lovo Ood." Wrap yourself in that glorious
promise. Here is for your neck a string of
P"arl3 made out ot crystallized tears,
"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
eometh in the morning." Here is a coron"t.
"Be thou faithful unto death, and I will
give thee a crown of life." On, ye fainting
ones by the brook Besor, dip yonr blistered
feet in tho running 8-ream of God's mercy,
bathe your brow at the welis oi. salvation,
soothe your woun Is with the balsam that
exudes from tr-- >s of life. Got will not
utterly cast you off, O broken hearted man,
O broken hearted woman, fainting by the
brook Besor!
A shepher l fin Is that his musical pipe is
bruised. He says: "I can't get anymore
music out of this instrument, so I will just
break it, an 1 I will throw this rood away.
Then I will get another reed, and I will piay
music on that." But Oo I says He will not
oast you off because all the music his gonrs
out of your sou';. "The bruise I ree I He will
not break.'1 As far as I can tell the diagnosis of your disease, vou want divine nursing, and it is promise 1 you, "As one whon
his mother eomtorteth so will I comfort
you." God will see you all the way through,
0 trouble i soul, and wle-n you come dowu
to the Jordan of death you will tin I it to be
as thin a brook as ]{-sor, for Dr. Robinson
says that in April li-sor dries up and there is
no brook at all. And in your last moment
you will be aa placid as the Kentucky min-
!^8hiwiim)r?vOii1} 3? ..V> g?*!,»»?"« iQ the
deathbed. Tell her there is not a word
of truth In it, lor I am thora now. and Jesus
is with ui". and I tlu 1 it a very happy way,
not because I am a goo 1 man, for I am not.
1 am nothing but a poor, miserable sinner.
but I have an Almighty Saviour, aad both of
His arms are around me."
May God Almighty, through tho bloo 1 of
tho everlasting covenant, bring us into the
companionship of our loved ones who havo
already entered the heavenly laud and into
the presence of Christ, whom, not having
sen. we love, and so David shall recover
all, "and as his part Is that goeth dowu to
tho battle, so shall his part bo that tarrieth
by the stuff."
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Toi.stoi, tho Russian novelist, was born nt
Tuba, August**, 1828.
Pbofesbob Hknuv Moiu.ky died recently at
Carlsbrooko, Isle of Wight.
Mit. Pavi-K, a risintr London novelist, Is a
clerk in the Bank of England.
Th« King of Greece is an excellent swimmer and has a perfect passion for fishing.
Pantos Birmabck would rather havo a sum
cure for rheumatism thau all the titles in
T-'.nrop".
Prmidkxt Carrot, of Franc", reiterated
nis decision not to present himselt for reelection.
flF.strut, O. O. Howabu has been elected
President o" the National Temperanee Society, to jra weed John Wanamaker.
Mrs. IT. 8. Chant says that she has not
yet decid"! waft-lew she will reside permanently in New York or in W ishin rtou.
Tiih.'.t.if.st with belladonna has so
strengthened one of Mr. Gladstone's eyes
join their families? Then I am Iuto, in the
nam" of God, to say that you may and to
tell you how.
I remark. In tho lirst place, if you want to
join your loved ones in glory, you must
travel the same way they went. No sooner
nad the tifi.tr dead Egyptian been resuscitated
than he pointed the way the captors and tho
captives had gone, and David and hi- men
followed after. So our Christian friends
have gone into another country, an.l if we
want to reach their companionship wa must
tako the same road. They repented. We
must rep-nt. They prayed. We must pray.
They trusted in Christ Wo must trust In
Christ. They lived a religious life. We must
live a religious life. They were in somo
things like ourselves. I know, now thev are
gone, there is a halo around their names.
but they had their faults. They said ant
dl 1 tilings they ought n-v -r to hav • s i! 1 or
done. They were sometimes .rebellious,
sometimes cast down. They ware tar Irom
being perfect. So I suppose that when we
have gone somethings In us that arc bow
only tolerable may be almost resplendent.
But as they wore like us in deficiencies we
ouriittobe like them iu taking a supernal
Christ to make up for the deficits. Had It
not bo"n for Jesus they would havo all
perished, but Christ confronted them and
Slid. "I am the way," an I they took it.
I have also to s iy to you that the pith that
these captives tr > I was a troubl • 1 ;, ith. an I
that David an 1 his men had to go over the
samo difficult way. While those captives
were being taken off they said, ".)'>, w are
so tire l; we are s>> sick : we ar" -o hungry !"
But the men who had charge of them said
"Stop tills cry.ng. Goon!'' David and his
men also foun I it a hard w iy. They ha 1 to
travel it. Our frien Is bave gon i Into Hlory,
and tt to through much tribulation that we
are to outer into the kingdom. How our
loved ones use I to liavo to s'ru fgle ! Ho.v
their old hearts ache I! How sometimefl
Wfiii".!.-*. ,iu"iiia-.V aaaaajaaa. - '.' -i- uu
that what were called "crow's teet" on their
faces wore the marka of the blaok raven of
trouble. Did you ever hear the old people,
seated by the evening stan 1, talk over their
early trials, their hardships, the .■,•-,-
dents, the burials, the disappointments, Ci;
empty flour barrel when there w-r, so many
hungry ones to feed, the slekivss almost
unto death, where the n,-xt dos- of morphine
decided between ghastly bereavement and
an unbroken homo circle? Oh, yes! It was
trouble that whitened their hair. It was
trouble that shook the cup In their hands. It
was troublo that washed the luster from
their eyes with the rain of tears until they
needed spectacles. It was trouble that made
the can,- a necessity for their Journey. Do
you never remember scing your ol 1 mother
sitting on some rainy day looking out of the
window, her elbow on the win low sill, her
hand to her brow, looking out, not se ling
the falling shower at all (you well knew she
was looking Into the distant past), until the
apron came up to her eyes because the memory was too much for her?
Oft the bl?, unt.l'lden tear.
Stealing down the fun-owe I check,
T,,l I In eloquence rtneere
Tal.-s »f woe th,'}- could not speak.
Uut. tills scene of w,..-pin,' o'er.
Past this scent! or toll and pain,
Tl'.-v shall feel distress no more,
"Who are those under the altar?" tho
question was asked, and the response came,
"These aro they which came out of great
tribulation and have washed their robes and
mado thom whito in tho bloo ! of tho Lamb."
Our friends went by a path of tears into
glory. Bo not surprised if we have to travel
the same pathway.
I remark again, if wo want to win the society of our friends In heaven, we will not
Only have to travel a path of faith and a path
of tribulation, but wo will also have to positively battle for their companionship. David
and his men never wanted sharp swords, aud
lnvuln-Table shields, and thick breastplates
go much a3 they wanted them on the day
when they came down upon the AmeUkttes,
If they had lost that battle, they never would
have got their families back. I suppose that
one glance at their loved ones iu captivity
hurled them into the battle with tenfold
courage and energy. They said : "We must
win it. Everything depends upon it. L>'t
each one take a man on point of spear or
sword. We must win it." And I have to
toll you that between us an I coming into tho
companionship of our loved one3 trho aro
departed there is an Austerlttz, there is a
Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo. War with
the world, war with tho flesh, war with the
devil. We have either to conquer our troubles, or our troubles will conquer us. David
will either slay tho Amalekites. ortho Amalekites Will slay David. And yet is not the
fort to be taken worth all the pain, all tho
peril, all the besiegement?
Look ! Who are they oa tho bright hills
of heaven yonder? Thero they nre, thoso
who sat at your own table, the chair now
vncant. There they nre, those whom you
rocked in infancy in the oradlo or hushed to
sleep in your arms. There thoy are, those J
in whose life your life was hound up. There j
they are, their brow more radiant than ever j
beforo you saw it, their lips waiting for the :
kiss of heavenly greeting, their cheek roseate ,
with the health of eternal summer, their
hands beckoning you up the steep, tho feet
bounding with the mirth of heaven. Tho
pallor of their last sickness gone out of their
face, nevermore to be sick, nevermore to
cough, nevermore to limp, nevermore to be
old, nevermore to weep. They are watching
from thoso heights to see if through Christ
you can take that fori, and whether you will
rush in upon them—victors. They know
that upon this battle depends whether you
will ever join their society. Up! Strike
harder! Charge moro bravely 1 Remember
that every inch ycu gain puts you so much
farther on toward that heavenly reunion.
If this morning while I speak you could
bear the cannonade of a foreii*n enemy
whieh was to despoil your city, and lf they
really should succeed in carrying your
families awav from yon. how long would we
take before we resolved to go after themr1
Every weapon, whether fresh from the
armory or old and rusty in the garret, would
be brought out, and we would urge on, and
coming In front of tho foe wo would look at
them and then look at our families, and the
cry would be. "Victory or death !" and when
the ammunition was gone we would take the
captors on the point of the bayonet or under
the breech of the gun.
If you would make such a struggle tor
the getting back of your earthly friends, will
you not maKe as much struggle for the gaining of the eternal companionship of your
heavenlv friends? Oh, yes, we must join
thom! We must sit in their holy society.
Wo must 9iag with them the song. We
mTnt Mtebnte with thom the triumph. Dot
it never be told on earth or in heaven that
David nnd his men pushed out with braver
hearts for the getting back of their earthly
friends for a f-w vears on earth than we to
get our departed !
You sav that all this implies that our departed Christian friends ore alive. Why, hat
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that heis enabl
difficulty.
The King of
Prance an 1 Bpea!
camo a barbarian
ed in a love affair.
Tux. Austrian Empress's brother, Dttka
Charles Thoo lore, ol Bavaria, has painwl
at Sleran his free practice as an oculist for
the benellt of the poor.
Th iFKSsoa Oskki, a celebrated
historian, is a vegetarian, who*
dinn t is bntt «re 1 rolls an 1 r. llsho
down with old water.
The Czarow'.t/ oi Russia is said to bo fll*.
inclined to marry. It" wiats to rev,-rice
throno in favor of his
Grand Du'v-eM-Cn d.
Tts;tf.t> Stati-s SEXATona Pkoctou and
Dubois are as ard'n* trout anglers as Senator Quay is a tarpon Usher nan. The 'or a -r
took in the op >ning of the season in Vermont,
Ebkk .Tor.oF.Nsrv. the firearms inventor, is
a portlv. woll-p.is'l man, with dark eves
and fail gray beard. Ho o •■•apies the position In the Norway Armory ol boss en a,-or,
or gunmaker.
Listm.XA.vr P*a»t's title te one of courtesy
only. He is a eivil engineer an I not a I'm >
officer. He has spent mor" tb-in one-quart t
,,; his time since he eutero I the navy in th I
Arcti" regions.
ML E. Iv.iM.t.s, President of the "Rig
Four' railroads, worked hia way through
Harvard Law School, sleeping on the ft > >r
of a friend's law office an I eatin r his m xUs
wherever he could get them.
Cart, ZABJiAHa'a record of forty vears'
lea lership of the Boston Hmlel aa I H ivdu
Society is sal 1 to be unsurpiss 11 in tii" his-
" musi*. no other >')n In -tor ever hav-
d charge for so long a time of any
musical society.
GKtuiATtn Gadk. tho American Consul :rt
Chlstlanla, Norway, who was appointed in
ISoO by General Grant, is the oldest consul
in the service, with the ex -option of Consul
Bprague, at Gibraltar. Ho wiil celebrate his
jubilee on June 23.
Dn. sTouii A. Axr.Ritwa, ot Worcester,
Mass.. has been in practice over s:xty years,
■during forty-eight of which he answer" 1
calls dav and night, and now. at th . age o.'
ninetv-one, he still has a large office prae-
tlee, "and he includes am m,* his patients
some of the third gen-ration he has troato U
Thk Presbyterian Assembly at Saratoga,
N. Y., adopted a report recommending thai
the General Assembly assume direct control
of all theological seminaries ia tho Church,
Thk loss at Williamsport and Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania, by tiio floods Is estimated at $3,000,000.
The Southwest Pass Lighthous", at the
mouth of the Mississippi River, Louisiana,
has been destroyed by fire. It was a first
order fixed light. The str.i -ture was Iii foot
in height, and was built early In tho seventies at a cost of 1160,000.
Conoressman W. C. Oatks was nominated
for Governor of Alabama by the state Convention at Montgomery, defeating Johnson,
tho anti-Cleveland candidate. 272 to 2)2.
The cornor stone of a monument to bo
erected in honor of the unknown Confederate dead of North Carolina wis laid In
Raleigh. Walter Grimes was tho principal
speaker of the day. There was an immense
gathering of persons from all parts of the
State. /
Fire has destroyed tho busin-ss portion of
Jasper, Fla.
In a shooting affray la Hanford, Cal.
James McCaffrey was kill" I an 1 J imes Ryan
mortally wounded. Eight man were engaged
In the fight, which resulted from McCaffrey's
attempt to prevent Ryan's sojn vising at a
primary election.
The cornor stone of tho first Pythian
Home in the world was laid in Springfleld,
Ohio, with impressive ceremonies. H. W.
Lewis. Grand Chancellor of Ohio, presided.
William Brooks, a colored man, employed
by W. A. Taylor, farmer. In Forest City, Ark.,
was shot and killed by unknown persons.
Brooks had proposed for the hand of his employer's daughter in marring" and had been
driven off the farm. A colored man, who
assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl iu Arlington, Ga., nnd subsequently shot her father,
was taken from the jail ,u that placo by an
armed band of citizens, who hanged him
from a tree in the public square.
The President nominated A. W. Bradbury
lo be District-Attorney for Maine.
The Queen of England has knight id Isaac
Pitman, the inventor of the Pitman system
of phonetic shorthand.
President Peixoto's course in suspending
relations with Portugal was sustained by the
Brazilian Houso of Deputies.
The French Ministry was defeated In tho
Chamber of Deputies by a vote or 275 to 225,
whereupon they informed President Carnot
that thoy would resign. It was looked upon
as a victory for tho Socialists.
THE LABOR WOULD.
It requires forty men to mako an ax.
ago.
A liLACKffsiiTn In Jerusalem can make tjl. 93
per week.
Or the 25,000 bookbinders in this country
only 5000 aro organized.
The Swiss watch industry is suffering
from severe depression.
A Beef-Boxers' TJxiox has boon organized in Kansas City, Mo.
The union clerks at Nashville, Tonn.,
have organized a fife and drum corps.
The initiation fee of Laborers' Union Protective Society has been raised to -J 10.
The number of textile workers in this
country is estimated at about 800,000.
A movement is on foot to increase tho
wages of boys in glass factories ten per
cent.
CnicAQo's Health Commissioner will organize forty medical students as sweat shop
inspectors.
The fourth linnual convention of tho National Textile Union was hold recently in
Philadelphia.
The 'Longshoremen's National Union Is
now about ono year old, and it has thirty-
two local branches.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers held, recently, its annual National
Convention nt St. Paul, Minn.
The labor organizations in Jersey City
Heights, N. J., formed an association to establish a Labor Lyceum in that vicinity.
Is consequence of the eo il strikes In this
country Scotch mine owners wera asket to
tender shipmonts of coal for the United
States.
I'RKstiiENT Mi-Bride estimated that 175,-
000 out ol the l'Jl.00) bituminous coal
miners in tho United Statss joined tho
strike.
Busi-.v'Ess men of Now York City, who have
in their employment 20,003 boys, have determined to give th" preferen • i to hoys that
do not smoke cigarettes.
The oldest guild in Eug'rm 1 is the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths. It still
enjoys the ancient rigid ui inspecting any
smith's shop within four miles oi the boundary of Loudon.
Tiie ilrst contract given out for stone under the recent Ne-.v York State law, which
provides that all stone used in the state or
municipal work shall be cut an 1 dressed in
and by citizens of the State, is for the court
house ot Rensselaer Couuty. The prico is
$110,000.
Captain- Wili.iax Henry Smith, seventy-
six years of age. is the eldest employe in the
service of the Baltimore and Ohio lldlroad.
lie is iii charge of ail engineering work con.
nected witl| lhe right ot way from the rius.
ouehanna tolhe Schuylkill River. He be.
e'amo connected wi-'-b tho commny in 1837.
DEVELOP THE SOUTH.
lory
HER EYES GOUGED OUT.
An Anglo-Japanese School Teach "r
Preacies Against a Native Deity.
Advices by the Empress of India state th l
Miss Imhoff, a teacher in tho Anglo-I iinn-
ajasvo school at Yonewaza, Japan, went ini
the temple devoted to the go I I"* ya . ■' i
tho day devote 1 by the natives I
ship of that go I and preaehe I
worship of grav m images
the native deity. At the enu ■iiisi.-i <
sermon Miss Imhoff was c-ias.l. ku
dowu with ilea** aa I her «y*t pvic o i<
:iinst
ani sn*»rini
A Powerful Association Organized
to Colonize Lands
The Matiuiactur-ts' Record states that a
| powerful association has been organize 1 hj
I leading capitalists, bankers and railroad of-
lli-ers, nnderthe name of tho Southern Im-
migration. Land ani Title Company, tho
purpose oi which is to eolonfee an 1 develop
Southern land-', aul le gen iral to br->t immigration and investment to tne South, Tho
scope an 1 plans of tho eompiuy are on tha
broa b-st scale, an I it will hire in the Unit" I
States an 1 Earopeajk countries lhe widest
an I most influential connections.
Tiie main office will ba in Baltimore, with
agencies and branches in important centors
in this country ani In Canada and Groat
Britain and on the continent.
The projectors n'. t he company have been
for some years i lepti'i) I with Southern development, aud are all men of noted ability
and business sagacity. The President of tho
company is Hon. Chauneey V Sleek, ot
Pennsylvania , r'irst Vice-President, Mr. Julius s.Carr, the millionaire tobacco manu-
factnrer, of Durham. N. C ; Second floe*
Po«i.lent, Mr. M. Erakfne Miller, of Staunton, probably the largest in iividual coal
landowner in the▼irsinlas; Third Vice-
President md General M vt u ;r. Hr. A. V.
Arthur, out of the leaden in S mtiicrt development.
Among tin, dr--tors are Hou. John R.
Proctor, President ol th i Unite I -V-v» Civil
Berries Commission ; Dr. C. If. Daai-y. Jr.,
Assistant Secretary °« ,!l-' United States Department oi agriculture . John SkeJloa Will
lams, banker, of Biehmond, Va. . 0. B. Or-
cum. President ol lhe Newport New.) Snip
buil.iin.- as I l»ry D . k r , up my . Governor
W. A. M -i 'Crklf. oi West Virginia. W. A.
Tur„. '■!!■■!■ il p i^.s rug.-r u.-iit i.l tha Krcii-
mon , and D.-uivili" 1*. nnoid ; W. H. Fuller,
general pass n-cr .agent of tne Uueeapeaka.
and Ohio Bailroa 1; Bdw.n Fitej, tC->., iraflU
mauag-r o! tho Eaxt Tenncaseo, Vir/unaau I
Georgia Ra-lro.i 1. wlothiritutdfei>'*-i!*iM|
men ideutill • i • • -outhern growth.